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REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2011 - Screen shot of Pilotwings Resort(TM) for the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D - without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS(TM) system goes on sale in the United States on March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way. (Graphic: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2011 - Game play footage of Pilotwings Resort(TM) for the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D - without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS(TM) system goes on sale in the United States on March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way.

REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2011 - Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D - without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS(TM) system goes on sale in the United States on March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way. (Photo: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2011 - Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D - without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS(TM) system goes on sale in the United States on March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way. (Photo: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2011 - Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D - without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS(TM) system goes on sale in the United States on March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way. (Photo: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2011 - Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D - without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS(TM) system goes on sale in the United States on March 27 at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way.

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D – without the need for
special glasses. The Nintendo
3DS™ system goes on sale in the United States on March 27
at a suggested retail price of $249.99. It comes with a collection of
pre-installed games and fun features, with more on the way.

“Nintendo 3DS can play 3D video games and take 3D pictures, but that’s
just the tip of the iceberg,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie
Fils-Aime. “The 3D display is amazing in its own right, but just as
compelling are the new forms of game play it delivers, and the
groundbreaking ways it will connect players to new content … and each
other.”

To celebrate the arrival of the system, Nintendo is holding a midnight
launch event starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time on March 26 at the Best Buy
store in Union Square in New York City. The event will feature hands-on
Nintendo 3DS demos with food, music and giveaways (while supplies last),
all leading up to a countdown to midnight, when the Nintendo 3DS system
goes on sale. For those who can’t make it to New York, additional
midnight launch events will be held at several Best Buy stores
throughout the country. Fans can visit http://www.bestbuy.com/3DS
for more information. Nintendo is also installing more than 6,000 kiosks
at retailers across the country over the next couple of months to let
people demo the new Nintendo 3DS system.

Nintendo 3DS has 18 games available on launch day, with more than 30
total available by early June. Nintendo-published games available March
27 include:

Pilotwings Resort™, a high-flying aerial adventure
that lets you soar over a tropical island in a plane, on a hang glider
or with a rocket belt. You can take on more than 30 challenging
missions, or go sightseeing and snap pictures in the game.

nintendogs™ + cats, which lets you train and
interact with your very own puppy and kitten. They react to your voice
and will even welcome you with a lick of the face as you lean in.
There are three different versions of the software, each featuring a
different starting breed: Toy Poodle, Golden Retriever or French
Bulldog. In each version, players can eventually unlock all 27
different breeds to enjoy.

Steel Diver™, an action-packed and immersive 3D
submarine combat adventure. Take command of your sub to control its
speed, depth and pitch, and use both the touch-screen and
motion-sensitive controls to navigate through lush undersea
environments and fire torpedoes at enemy ships and obstacles.

Meanwhile, Nintendo is working on Nintendo 3DS games from its top
franchises, including The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina
of Time™ 3D, Star Fox™ 64 3D,
Kid Icarus™: Uprising and new installments in
the Super Mario™, Mario Kart™, Animal
Crossing™ and Paper Mario™ series.The
system is also ready to play nearly every single Nintendo DS™
game with its original 2D graphics. Nintendo DS games that required the
use of the Game Boy™ Advance slot are not compatible with the
Nintendo 3DS system.

Nintendo 3DS features two screens. The top screen displays 3D images
without the need for special glasses. The bottom screen is
touch-sensitive. It also has three cameras. One inner camera points at
you, while two exterior cameras let you take pictures of your friends
and family in 3D or 2D. It weighs approximately 8 ounces and is
available in Cosmo Black or Aqua Blue.

Built-in games and applications include Mii Maker™, which
uses facial recognition technology to create a Mii™ character
that looks just like you; Face Raiders™, which
requires you to shoot at comical depictions of your own face as well as
others around you; AR Games™, which superimpose
graphics and animations on the real world using the included AR Cards;
and Nintendo 3DS Sound, which lets you listen to MP3 or AAC music files,
or make your own recordings and play with them using fun filters. The
StreetPass™ feature lets some of your games and applications
wirelessly swap small bits of game data as you pass other Nintendo 3DS
users throughout the day, if you choose. SpotPass™, on the
other hand, lets the Nintendo 3DS system detect wireless hotspots or
wireless LAN access points and allows users to obtain information and
game data when the system is in Sleep Mode. Free software and videos
will also become available with future system updates.

Soon Nintendo will roll out a series of additional features for Nintendo
3DS, including an Internet browser, an online store called Nintendo
eShop, the ability to access 3D Hollywood movie trailers, automatic and
free access to more than 10,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots nationwide and the
ability to stream Netflix movies (Netflix unlimited membership required).

Remember that the Nintendo 3DS system features parental controls that
let adults manage the content their children can access. For more
information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo3ds.com.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of
interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan,
manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home
console and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since
1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™,
Nintendo has sold more than 3.5 billion video games and more than 577
million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii,
Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™,
as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™,
Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It
has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household
names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™,
Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary,
Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as
headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For
more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com.

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